For our final weekend of the season we decided on a trip to Legoland and Alton Towers to see both of their fireworks displays. I’ll go into Alton Towers’ display in a following blog but for now, here’s my thoughts on Legoland.
The park wasn’t that busy throughout the day, only really getting busier closer to the fireworks which were due to start at 6pm.
I’d decided that the best place to watch was Heartlake City, stood right next to the barriers to the side of the seating area. I’d asked around the park for ideas as to where might be best but there were many different answers and to be fair, we got an excellent show stood here.
I would have thought that being stood right at the top of the hill would have given some great views, but there was a sign up saying that that wasn’t a fireworks viewing area so we settled on Heartlake.
The show itself wasn’t like Alton Towers who have stories to theirs, but more like a standard display. The fireworks were launched to a selection of popular music tracks and there was something for everyone.
There was also a large fire ball generator that would fire every so often in line with the fireworks. Everything was going great until around 11 minutes when they stopped. That was the end of the show!
I was honestly quite disappointed with this as I’ve been to local displays that lasted twice as long and cost 10% of the price Legoland charged. As passholders it was only £20 additional for the fireworks but the length left a lot to be desired!
They were good though, well timed to the music and a good variety of different types and colours. If it had been around 20 minutes, I would have enjoyed it much more though!
Besides the fireworks, we had a great day getting around all the attractions and I finally have an understanding of how the Ninjago ride works.
I was always under the impression that you use both hands to get as many shots off as possible but it seems you can do just as well and feel like you’re doing well by using one hand only. We got a ride at the very end of the day where we were the only ones on and it gave me time to play about with the system and it definitely works better with one hand.
I very briefly managed to show up on the daily leaders scoreboard as the Ice Ninja, which was promptly replaced but I still managed to see myself there, and to be honest, I didn’t even know the high score section was there until I looked properly!
Laser raiders was another ride we did a lot of as I’ve found out there’s a secret on the ride that gives you a large score for finding it. I’ve no idea where it is but each subsequent reride I’ll be looking for it to say I’ve shot it!
We also managed to get on a night ride on The Dragon, an attraction I was looking forward to at night because it has a large outdoor section that I was hoping would be pitch black. Unfortunately they have installed generators to power light banks outside so it did take away from the night ride but it was definitely better than a day time ride.
Overall we had a great time at Legoland, though the fireworks were a little short for what we were expecting, the display was good and the rest of the day was excellent too!
If you are interested you can watch the recording I did here!
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